Any chance that a future update might include date-stamping the availability search results?

I have made a simple change that will track the date of last change to the ol_wait_weeks custom column in another custom column named ol_wait_weeks_date. This isn't quite correct in that it will not show the date that availability was last determined if ol_wait_weeks is unchanged from the previous check, but it was much easier for me to implement it that way.

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Originally Posted by compurandom

Would it be possible to add an action or option to import the covers from overdrive?

The Overdrive Link plugin is not the appropriate place for that feature and I will not be adding it.

There is a separate Overdrive metadata source plugin included in calibre, but I don't think that plugin has worked for a while. It used to be able to obtain covers from OverDrive.

I have made a simple change that will track the date of last change to the ol_wait_weeks custom column in another custom column named ol_wait_weeks_date. This isn't quite correct in that it will not show the date that availability was last determined if ol_wait_weeks is unchanged from the previous check, but it was much easier for me to implement it that way.

Wow - Fast work - Thanks! Works perfectly as far as I can tell. I know it's kind of trivial, but it's nice to see at a glance how old the info is and whether to rerun the search before choosing which library to borrow from. I hope other users find it useful...

I just have to be careful not to select a blank date in that column - date columns apparently populate today's date automatically and can't then be cleared?

I have quite a few books that I am hoping that libraries will acquire, and every once in a while I search for them. I mostly don't get anything, because many aren't even available as ebooks.

But every once in a while I get a hit, and then my hopes are dashed when it's not the right book. The problem is that then every time after that when I search, the same wrong book is found. Many of these could be excluded if I could add a "not" to the title.

For example, I'm looking for the original Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling that has the descriptions and pictures of the magical creatures. Now, though, it finds Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay.

I've also run into it with prolific authors, who have written a book with a very short title and then written other books with similar titles. The James Patterson "Private" series has this issue with Private Games and The Games.

Other books I search for sometimes return "study guides" for the real book. This mostly happens with classics, but I'm beginning to see it with more recent books, too.

In all these cases, I can screen them out with a "not this word". Maybe something like the following:

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them^Screenplay

I know this is tricky, because you'd have to do the "not" after the real search, because no site offers boolean searches, but I think it would be helpful to a lot of people.

In all these cases, I can screen them out with a "not this word". ...
I know this is tricky, because you'd have to do the "not" after the real search, because no site offers boolean searches, but I think it would be helpful to a lot of people.

Thanks for the suggestion. I need to think about it before I decide what to do.

There doesn't appear to be a way to migrate links to the new OverDrive websites, in the Discovered books view (only for books you have added to your library).

The plugin does not have a function to migrate links in the discovered book list. But there is a solution.

If all of your OverDrive libraries have already upgraded to the new style-website and you have done sufficient searches to duplicate all of the links you want to keep with new-style links then you can safely delete all of the old-style links in your discovered book list.

If you set the plugin tweak overdrive_link_remove_reserve_ids to True you can remove the old links. After setting this tweak restart calibre and then run the "Check and repair book links" menu choice. Any old-style links in your calibre library and in your discovered books list will be removed, leaving only the new-style links.

my plug in seems to be stuck on searching only for epub: as pre a results summary below
Search for books by 59 authors
Overdrive Link 2.13.0, calibre 2.85.1
Search language: EnglishSearch formats: Adobe EPUB eBook, Open EPUB eBook
I have several times gone to customise plug in and checked book type Mobi ( to do an amazon search ) but the change is not being applied.

this is the first time for a long time I have used this plug in, both it and calibre are up to date. I used to be able to search amazon with it.
what has gone wrong / what am i doing wrong
shoudl I remove and re-add the plug in or can I force a repair ?

update. after 2 more tries:
1. I unticked all the formats. it searched for epub!
2. I then ticked only mobi, finally it searched for that BUT also still searched for epub:
search for books by 59 authors
Overdrive Link 2.13.0, calibre 2.85.1
Search language: EnglishSearch formats: Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, Mobipocket eBook, Open EPUB eBook